The Structure of Heaven

An encyclopedia of the paranormal, How Spirit is organized and how it affects your daily life

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  • Introduction
  • 1. Skepticism and Classical Physics
    • Skepticism/Humanism
    • Skepticism/Relativity and Quantum Physics
    • Skepticism/CSICOP
    • Skepticism/Why the Skeptics are Wrong
    • Skepticism/The advantages of belief
  • 2. The Human Soul
    • Why do we live in a material Universe?
    • The Human Soul and its Relationship to the Body
  • 3. God and Theodicy
    • Does God cause bad things to happen to good people?
    • Guardian Spirits and the Life Plan
    • What is Theodicy?
      • Zoroastrian Theodicy
      • Jewish Theodicy
      • Christian Theodicy
      • Why is Theodicy important?
      • Can Love conquer all??
  • 4. Psychics and mediums- an overview
    • What are psychics and mediums?
    • Why mediums can’t seem to agree about the afterlife
  • 5. The Structure of Heaven
    • The Universe according to Emanuel Swedenborg and Frederick Myers
    • A Map of the spiritual realm
    • Spirit Portals
  • 6. Heaven, Hell and the planes of illusion
    • Introducing The transitional plane (The Earth Sphere)
      • The functions of the transitional plane.
      • Crossing over
      • Time traps on the transitional plane
    • Evolution within the planes of illusion
      • The Summerlands and above
      • The Winterlands
    • The Hells
      • The Conditions in the Hells
      • Who goes to Hell?
      • Hell and the transitional plane
    • How spirits from different levels perceive each other
    • Vertical Stratification of the Spiritual Realm and How Spirits Progress
    • Horizontal Stratification and Spiritual Social Groups
  • 7. What happens when we die?
    • There is no external Judgement in the Afterlife!
    • Death doesn’t change a soul’s attitude
    • The life review
    • What do spirits look like?
    • Ghosts and their clothes
    • Zombies
    • Time In the spiritual world
    • Time in the planes of illusion
    • Memory in the planes of illusion
    • What’s it like to be dead?
  • 8. Spiritual laws/The Law of Divine Love
    • Spiritual Laws/The law of compensation
    • Spiritual Laws/Spiritual Gravity
    • Spiritual Laws/Spiritual Frequencies
    • Spiritual Laws/The Law of Attraction
    • Spiritual Laws/The Law of Free Will and Good vs. Evil
    • The red devil and the white angel
    • The spiritual advantage of Living in a Material World
    • Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?
  • 9. The Human Aura and Theosophy
    • The Aura as a Protective Spiritual Skin
    • The Aura and Spiritual infection (Obsession)
  • 10. Dr. Carl Wickland and Thirty Years Among the Dead
    • Dr. Wickland’s Spirit Dialogs
    • Spirit Related Insanity
  • 11. Spiritual Infection and Modern psychiatry
    • Emanuel Swedenborg’s Spiritual Insight
    • Wilson Van Dusen
    • Wilson Van Dusen’s Heavenly and Hellish Voices
    • Entities that invade the minds of the living
  • 12. Earthbound Spirits
    • Will I end up an earthbound spirit?
      • Three reasons that GOOD souls get stuck on the transitional plane.
    • Where do ghosts get their energy?
    • Human Spirit Obsession
    • Human Spirit Possession
    • Criminal culpability and spiritual infections
    • Enthrallment by the living and Hypnosis
      • Enthrallment and Abusive Relationships
      • Enthrallment: Cults
      • Enthrallment in the afterlife
      • Enthrallment by God and angels
  • 13. Angels and demons
    • The Provenance of Angelic Beings
    • The War in heaven
    • Angels and their function in religion
    • Magic and Wicca
    • Demonology
      • The structure of Hell
      • How demons infect a person or place
      • The five stages of demonic attack
      • Why do demons want to possess people?
      • The characteristics of demons
      • Thought Forms
  • 14 exorcim
    • Major exorcisms (also called imperative exorcisms)
    • False, or fake possessions
    • How Religion Views Demons Vs. Ghosts
    • Avoiding Demonic Repossession
    • Who can Remove Demons?
    • Removing Human ghosts
    • Exorcism and poltergeist activity in disturbed children
    • Haunted Dolls and Other Objects
    • Dealing with Family and Marriage Disturbances Caused by Ghosts
    • Goodness and ghosts
  • 15. Poltergeists, Ghosts and Hauntings
    • Poltergeists versus Ghosts
    • How spiritualists view ghosts
    • How Parapsychologists view ghosts
    • Children and Poltergeist infestations
    • Poltergeists that make the news
    • Ghosts and spiritual imprints
    • Ghosts of famous people
    • Why do ghosts seem bound to the same location?
      • Ghosts and sensory deprivation
    • A Ghost Story
    • Differentiating between Human and Demonic hauntings
      • Hauntings by Human ghosts
        • Human Ghost hangouts
      • Hauntings by Demonic spirits
  • 16. All about Psychics and others prone to spiritual infections
    • 1. Psychic Sensitives
      • Psi and the human brain
      • The five general categories of psychics
    • 2. Spiritual infection and mental illness
      • Are the spiritually infected mentally ill responsible for their criminal acts?
    • 3. Spiritual infection and Acquired Negative Lifestyles
      • Spiritual infection and drug and alcohol addiction
      • Spiritual infection as a result of negative personality traits
    • 4. Spiritual infection and childhood abuse
  • 17. Criminals and Spirits
    • Why are criminals more prone to spirit obsession than other people?
  • 18. Religion and Government
    • The birth of Morality
    • Religion = Spirit + Politics
    • The paranormal and religion
    • Human Nature-The REAL reason for religion
      • Sex and Religion
      • Religion and War
      • Religion vs. Secular law
    • Religious Dogmas
      • The Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal
    • Spiritualism
    • Why are the dark spheres necessary?
  • 19. Spirit Lies and Tall Tales!
    • Edgar Cayce
    • Edgar Cayce and Atlantis
  • 20. Suicide and its Spiritual Consequences
    • Nondiscretionary Suicides
    • Discretionary Suicide
    • Why you should never choose to commit suicide
    • Suicide Terrorists
  • 21. Reincarnation (An Introduction)
    • Spiritualism and Reincarnation
    • Allan Kardec and the Spirits’ Book
    • Allan Kardec, a warrior for reincarnation
    • Theosophy and Reincarnation
      • Madame Blavatsky
    • A House divided
    • Karma
    • Swedenborg on reincarnation
    • The group soul (the oversoul)
  • 22. Reincarnation: The evidence
    • The evidence for possession as an alternative to reincarnation
    • The early church and the history of reincarnation in the West
    • Past Life Regression
    • Is reincarnation really a part of God’s plan?
      • Why would a soul choose to reincarnate?
      • The Pitfalls of Reincarnation
      • If a soul reincarnates, what happens to the old personality?
      • The ultimate fate of old personalities 
  • 23. The Cross Correspondences
  • 24. The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism Page 1
    • The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism page 2
    • The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism page 3
    • The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism page 4
    • The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism page 5
    • The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism page 6
    • The Fox sisters: Original report of the Hydesville Haunting
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Spirit Portals

The barrier between spiritual reality and the reality we live in is firm, and not easily penetrable.  Most ordinary people never extend their thoughts beyond the “here and now”, and people that attempt to make direct contact with the spiritual world find that it is next to impossible to do so in a normal state of consciousness.  It requires a lot of effort and hard work to penetrate the barrier.

However, as you can see from the preceding chapters (and the ones that follow), spiritual reality and the world of matter are intimately intertwined.  So how is it that there can be any regular communication between the the two worlds?  The answer is “spiritual portals”.  Spiritual portals serve as entrances and exits between the spiritual and material worlds, and it is only through spiritual portals that any form of communication can take place.  In a way, they are just very sophisticated holes in the barrier.

The reason they are sophisticated is that these portals can be very different from one another. Some are very narrow and allow only information to flow.  Others are wide and allow both information and spiritual entities to enter and exit our world.  Some portals connect with positive spiritual entities while others connect with darker spirits.  Some seem to be wide open, and like a city street, allow communication and  transport of all sorts of spiritual entities; good, bad and indifferent.  The one thing they have in common is that they all allow communication in both directions.  

Personal portals

Every soul on earth has a direct connection with the spiritual world.  Thus, everyone, including you, has their own personal “spiritual portal”. This portal remains attached to you wherever you may go, a bit like an infinitely flexible pipe with one end attached to you and the other end anchored in Spirit.  Whenever you say a prayer, both the prayer and the unconscious reply from Spirit make use of this portal.  The condition of this connection is very much dependent on the spiritual condition of the living soul.  For most people, the portal is fairly constricted, and since most people give little conscious thought to spiritual matters, the portal gets little “exercise”.  The majority of its traffic is unidirectional and is composed almost exclusively of communications from spiritual entities who are attempting to unconsciously influence the thoughts and behavior of the living person.  

Other people have naturally wide spiritual portals.  Information and even the spiritual entities themselves flow naturally and unconsciously in both directions between that person and their spiritual connections.  We call these people “psychics”.  Some people with narrow portals can widen and lubricate their connections to some degree with training and effort on their part.  

 And then there is the question of what comes through these personal portals. Most people with ordinary mindsets tend to make positive connections with positive entities on the other side.  Once connected to positive entities, they generally remain connected to positive entities throughout their lives, and even if that person makes little conscious use of their spiritual link, their guides and spiritual friends will attempt to help them with subconscious “nudges” whenever possible.  

On the other hand, people with less benign motivations and  behaviors establish communication with negative spiritual entities, and once their portal connects to them, they remain connected to these entities and the negative thought patterns that emanate from them.  In other words, good and evil people are constantly influenced by the nature of the spirits that connect to them through their personal spiritual portals.  Everyone’s essential nature is established and maintained by the spiritual entities they unconsciously channel.  None of this means that negatively inclined people can’t change their overall mindset, but the longer their negative communications are maintained, the harder it is to change the nature and spiritual anchors of their communication channel.

Environmental portals

When most people think of spiritual portals, the ones that come immediately to mind are environmental portals .  They include the portals commonly found in haunted houses, abandoned nursing homes and mental hospitals.  They exist on battlefields and other places where many people have died.  They are also found in natural environments like waterfalls, geological divides and quiet forests.  

The fabric of the barrier that divides the two realities is fairly tough, but semi-permanent holes can form in places where a lot of people have suffered strong emotions.  These portals may remain in place long after the events that formed them, and depending on the emotional energies involved in their formation, they can permit all sorts of spiritual entities, as well as their mental impressions to enter the earth realm.  This accounts for the multiplicity of spirits that may haunt a particular environment such as a house, cave, forest, battlefield, hospital, etc.  A home where Satanic rituals were once conducted may have one or more portals which admit demonic entities as well as confused benign spirits.  Places where deep emotions, or tragic events have happened may open portals that produce spiritual imprints (non-sentient ghostly plays) to happen over and over again.  

Of course, not every emotion or trauma-packed event produces a spiritual portal.  A majority of ghosts that haunt a particular house or environment are the result of one-off events that leave behind a troubled soul trapped on the transitional plane (see chapter 6). The creation of a spiritual portal and its resulting two-way traffic pattern usually requires the simultaneous emotional input of a considerable number of traumatized people, or at minimum a great deal of emotional input by someone over a long period of time.

Spiritual portals may form around objects like mirrors and children’s toys (haunted dolls) due to the emotional energy poured into them by their owners.  Ouija boards are not necessarily portals, but they may open a portal to whichever type of spirit they were originally used to communicate with.  Avoid interacting with Ouija boards in general, but especially those that have previously been used by other people.

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Science, Math and God is the companion book, originally written as a preface to The Structure of Heaven. It's a book that explains why the skeptics are wrong, and why modern science no longer rules out the paranormal. Learn why God now has a place to live. (Also available as an eBook and paperback at Amazon.com)

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